Hacker News on 1 February 2016

• Alphabet Becomes the Most Valuable Public Company in the World
• Microsoft Edge records browsing history in InPrivate mode
• Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects
• 15 years of VLC and VideoLAN
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2016)
• Quiver: Programmer's Notebook for OS X
• How we use Slack in our family
• Yahoo to cut 15 percent jobs, close several units
• Ask HN: How happy are you working as a programmer?
• Socat: “the hard coded 1024 bit DH p parameter was not prime”